Jack Cooney sticks with team that dispatched Laois.
Westmeath have named their starting team as they look to reach a first Leinster Senior Football Championship final since 2016.
They were defeated by Dublin that day, 2-19 to 0-10 points and it is highly possible that it'll be another showdown with the reigning All-Ireland champions if they succeed against Kildare.
Jack Cooney has almost a full bill of health heading into the contest, Ciaran Martin a long term absentee following a ruptured achilles against Down in the league.
Westmeath starting XV:
Jason Daly; Jamie Gonoud, Kevin Maguire, Boidu Sayeh; James Dolan, Ronan Wallace, Sam McCartan; Ray Connellon, Sam Duncan; Denis Corroon, Ger Egan, David Lynch; Lorcan Dolan, John Heslin, Ronan O'Toole.
The lake county should be in buoyant mood after their second half dismantling of Laois while Kildare edged through a hard fought contest with neighbouring Offaly to reach this stage.
Our Westmeath commentator Gerry Russell caught up with Jack Cooney ahead of the game:
The Lilywhites meanwhile have named their team this morning.
Kildare Snr Football Team v Westmeath
— Kildare GAA (@KildareGAA) July 16, 2021
Sun 18th July @ 2pm
The fixture will be streamed live on GAAGo & full commentary on KFM pic.twitter.com/w5KhG8LvlK
It shows one change from the team which defeated the faithful, Conor Hartley comes in at wing-forward in place of Alex Beirne.
Up to 18,000 fans will be in attendance at Croke Park for the game.
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